KCR fans Telangana flames: Andhra staff will need to leave Hyderabad once we get our state

He was addressing Telangana Employees Association at Telangana Bhavan.

“Once all the Seemandhra employees leave,” he said,“all Telangana employees will receive promotions.’’

Many officials in the Secretariat,where a large number of employees from Seemandhra work,said this statement was made to “instigate” Telangana employees against staff from Seemandhra so that they quit Hyderabad by the time Telangana Bill is passed in Parliament.

“These remarks are aimed at intimidating and harassing us; people have already started talking in terms of ‘Us’ and ‘You’,’’ said S Chary,an employee.

Ever since the Telangana agitation started,the main concern cited by Seemandhra people was that they would become targets of hate and retribution as Telangana residents would — helped by their leaders — see them as depriving them of jobs and livelihood.

Earlier,KCR promised to “kick out’’ two top private educational institutions — Sri Chaitanya Group and Narayana Group — from Telangana. “They are from Andhra and they have no reason to be here. The first thing I am going to do when we achieve Telangana state is to kick them out,” KCR had said in his speech to party workers.